"Amazon is set to invest up to $50bn to expand artificial intelligence (AI) and supercomputing capacity for United States government customers, in one of the largest cloud infrastructure commitments targeted at the public sector. The e-commerce giant announced the investment on Monday. list of 4 itemsend of list The project, expected to break ground in 2026, will add nearly 1.3 gigawatts of new AI and high-performance computing capacity across AWS Top Secret, AWS Secret and AWS GovCloud regions."
"These include Amazon SageMaker for model training and customisation, Amazon Bedrock for deploying AI models and agents and foundational models such as Amazon Nova and Anthropic Claude. The federal government seeks to develop tailored AI solutions and drive significant cost savings by leveraging AWS's dedicated and expanded capacity. The push also comes as the US, along with other countries such as China, intensifies efforts to advance AI development and secure leadership in the emerging technology."
Amazon will invest up to $50 billion to expand AI and supercomputing capacity for United States government customers, adding nearly 1.3 gigawatts across AWS Top Secret, AWS Secret and AWS GovCloud regions. The project is expected to break ground in 2026 and will deploy new data centres with advanced computing and networking systems. One gigawatt of computing power roughly equals the power usage of about 750,000 US households. AWS already serves more than 11,000 government agencies and will offer services such as Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Bedrock and foundational models like Amazon Nova and Anthropic Claude to enable tailored AI solutions and cost savings. The expansion aims to strengthen U.S. competitiveness amid rising global investment in AI infrastructure.
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